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A British woman has become the first person to row solo from Japan to Alaska – a 3,750 mile route that experts called one of the most dangerous crossings of its kind.Sarah Outen battled huge waves, high winds, and freezing temperatures with no support vessel.
Nearly 2 million people who are employed through federal contractors earn less than $24,000 a year. That’s more low-wage workers than any private company, including Walmart and McDonald's, combined. At the 43rd annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's recent Legislative Conference, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) moderated a panel discussion on those low-wage workers and ways to improve their wages and working conditions.
On the heels of the AFL-CIO's national convention, United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo W. Gerard and up-and-coming USW leader Nick Gaitaud sat down with GRITtv's Laura Flanders to talk about the present and future of the labor movement.Check out the video in this blog post.
The Washington Navy Yard shooter lied about a previous arrest and failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts when he applied for a security clearance in the Navy.
The biological father of Baby Veronica, the Cherokee 4-year-old at the center of a cross-country custody dispute, handed her over to her adoptive parents Monday night at the home of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, representatives of both families told NBC News.
The AFL-CIO quadrennial 2013 convention in Los Angeles was a flurry of exciting activity that promises to remake the labor movement in the United States and build a movement for all working people to deal with the new challenges and political landscape working families must navigate. While there were many important discussions and plans made at the convention that will be expanded on in the coming months and years, here are nine important initiatives that came out of the resolutions passed by the convention delegates that you should know about.
DALLAS — A gregarious male gorilla at the Dallas Zoo will be sent to South Carolina for therapy after he bit one female gorilla and sneered at others, zoo officials said on Monday.
A human skull and jawbone were found on the property of a missing Kentucky woman who authorities said Monday may have been eaten by some of the dozens of hybrid wolf-dogs she kept in her yard.
